Tennessee Williams

The Mississippian tribe was the last major tribe to appear in North America before Europeans arrived. They lived in most of Southeast and mid-America, spanning the states of Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, with some areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota and also expanding into the Great Plains of North America. Their main culture focus was growing crops, such as maize (corn), beans, squash, and others. Growing these crops caused growth in large…

about, but it is relevant and transfers knowledge and wisdom so that the less exciting parts of history aren’t repeated. The Trail of Tears is one of many tragic times in history. In the 1830s, the southeastern portion of the united states, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida, was populated with over 100,000 Native Americans, but by the end of the decade, very few were left. They were moved because the federal government forced them to leave so that the white settlers could…

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in Cherokee County. . There are very few people in the small area; in fact, there are less than thirty thousand people in the entire county. The part that I like most about growing up in a small town is that most of the people treat each other like family. Most of my family have lived inside these county limits for the majority of their lives. From Weiss lake to Little Rock City, I claim Cherokee County as my home. Cedar Bluff, in particular, is the town…

In Nancy MacLean’ Behind The Mask of Chivalry, an in depth case study of the Georgia branches of the Ku Klux Klan is undertaken to get a full picture of what exactly the clan was and was after in the 1920s. In the introduction of the book, MacLean states the purposes for writing this book. “The goal of this study, then, is to situate Klan members in the world of their day, to take seriously what they did, and to listen carefully to what they said. In this way, we can learn a great deal about…

Thomas StoneWall Jackson was born midnight January 20-21 1824. Jackson grew up in what is now the state of West Virginia. Jackson was a confederate general during the American civil war. "His father, a lawyer named Jonathan Jackson, and his mother, Julia Beckwith Neale, had four children. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was the third born". At age 2 Jackson lost his father and older sister ,Elizabeth killed by typhoid fever. Thomas as a little kid lived the rest of his childhood with his father and…

the Trail of Tears, your parents dying, deadly diseases, starving in the winter, dying of hyperthermia in the winter. How would you survive? The Trail of Tears leads through the present day states of, Alabama Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina. Trail Of Tears- An event in history which happened in…

Before the Dawes Act of 1887, the treatment of Native Americans in the United States was brutal. Treatment after the Dawes Act was still awful, but in the many years before the act there were some truly cruel and inhuman things done to Native Americans. There was murder and massacres, like the one at Sand Creek; the idea of Manifest Destiny and pushing Native Americans of their land, like with the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the subsequent Trail of Tears, which led to many deaths; a great…

history of Texas and greatly impact our nation was born on March 2, 1793. Samuel (Sam) Houston was born to Samuel Sr. and Elizabeth Houston in Rockbridge County, Virginia. At the age of 14, after his father’s death in 1807, Sam moved to Blount County, Tennessee with his family. As a rebellious youngster, he left home when his older brother tried to make him work at the family store as a shop keeper when he was 16 years old. During this time, Sam lived with the Cherokees who he started to…

Reading these two passages my opinion is that the company shouldn't allow their employees to bring their dogs to work. First, some of the employees could be allergic to dogs and or scared of them. Next, dogs can be unsanitary. Finally, the employees might need to take more breaks and also the dogs could be a distraction to their work. First, some of the employees could be allergic to the dogs and or scared of them. With the employees that allergies to pets, you wouldn't want them to be…

threw himself into politics and was accepted to the North Carolina bar in 1787, and soon moved to what became Nashville to set up a private practice. His wealth and success grew rapidly: Jackson married, built a mansion, went from the first man from Tennessee in the House of Representatives in 1796 to the U.S. Senate in 1797. He later gained fame as a military hero. Severing as a major general in the War of 1812, Jackson led American trips to victory in Battle of Tohopeka in Alabama. He was also…